Meditation and Wellbeing

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In today’s competitive world, where everyone seems to be in a rat race to attain their goal, earning a livelihood generally brings in anxiety, tension, mental fatigue and this increases the possibility of lifestyle diseases. People are beginning to experience the emptiness of a materialistic, consumer focused, high pressure lifestyle and beginning to say NO to that way of life. The corporate world has recognized the need for employees to relax, recharge and regain their focus to achieve maximum productivity. According to the, English poet, John Milton, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven. Meditation has entered the realm of health care as a method of stress and pain reduction. It helps to increase physical relaxation, mental calmness, and psychological balance and, thereby, create a feeling of overall wellness. It provides one of the best solutions without any side effects whatsoever. Even healthy people can find a sense of inner peace and satisfaction with the training and practice of meditation. The book is composed of select articles that provide both the eastern and western perspectives on meditation. The book discusses various meditation exercises like OM yoga meditation, transcendental meditation, vipassana meditation, metta meditation, mindfullness meditation and chakra meditation, besides providing the basic instructions to practice meditation in a very simple manner and highlighting its benefits. The book would be useful to people in all walks of life as everyone is in need of a panacea for the ills of fast paced life and meditation can easily be inculcated as a habit and become a part of daily routine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.V.S Prasad

B V S Prasad is an Engineering graduate from IIT, Kharagpur and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has over 30 years of varied industry experience in Consultancy, HR, Finance, Production and Industrial Engineering areas. He is currently working as Senior Faculty Member at Icfai Business School Research Center, Chennai. His areas of interest include Soft Skills, Training and Development, MIS and Management Control Systems.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Srikant Kapoor

Srikant Kapoor holds a Master's degree in Business Management having dual specializations in Marketing and HR. He also holds first class diplomas in both Hotel and Sales management. He is currently working as Faculty Associate at Icfai Business School Research Center, Chennai. Prior to joining to Icfai he has taught Business Communication, Principles of Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Advertising, Services Marketing and Human Resource Management for over six years at graduate and undergraduate levels in leading management institutes in National Capital Region. In addition, he has two years corporate experience in operations & sales in the hospitality industry, where he had considerable exposure to foreign guests.

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Title
Meditation and Wellbeing
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788131415009
Length
272p.
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